Re: devfs

["john doe" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

>
>On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:08:02PM -0500, john doe wrote:
> > im actually starting the process of writing that automounter deal i was
> > talking about earlier.  someone told me devfs has a userspace daemon 
>that
> > can flag another process when devices are added/removed/etc...
>
>That's what hotplug is for.  See the hotplug(8) man page and the
>scripts in /etc/hotplug.
>

i will do that

> > what i know of devfs (other than having heard its name tossed around) is
> > that nodes are only created when something is actually there.  dont know
> > about any problems with it, but i do think that having thousands of 
>device
> > nodes in /dev that are attached to nothing is a bad thing (but not 
>knowing
> > all that much about devfs i dont knwo if its the correct solution 
>either).
>
>You have all those device nodes in order to support a ton of random
>hardware that you *might* want to use.  It's the same reason you have
>30MB of modules on a current Red Hat system...
>

its not that i think its a space problem (i know all of them together is 
still tiny) is that i think it should be easy to see what hardware is 
actually present with a quick ls

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